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Geologiczne i geochemiczne uwarunkowania zachowania nosorożców włochatych w Staruni - unikatowe stanowisko paleontologiczne
(Data obrony: 2014-01-28) Stefaniak, Karolina
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
Odnalezienie doskonale zachowanych szczątków wielkich, plejstoceńskich ssaków, u początku XX wieku, na terenie Karpat Wschodnich wstrząsnęło światem naukowym. Zarówno paleontolodzy, geolodzy, geochemicy i botanicy uznali to znalezisko za niezwykłe i jak dotąd niespotykane w swej randze. Stopień zakonserwowania zwierząt oraz otaczającej go roślinności był oszałamiająco wysoki – można rzec, że ówczesna flora i fauna tylko czekała na rządnych wiedzy naukowców. Głównym pytaniem jakie sobie postawili było „jak?”. Jak to możliwe, że sama natura, właściwie przypadkowo, zdołała tak dobrze zachować nosorożce włochate, że są one w lepszym stanie niż niejedna egipska mumia, w której przygotowanie włożono tak wiele ludzkiej pracy? Środowisko naturalne znów nas, ludzi, zaskoczyło. Specyficzna budowa geologiczna oraz związki chemiczne obecne w strefie przypowierzchniowej w okolicach Staruni stworzyły razem wręcz idealnie konserwujące środowisko. Stało się ono obiektem wieloletnich badań, głównie krakowskich i lwowskich uczonych.
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Idea of the ecological and geological tourist centre in Starunia (Fore-Carpathian region, Ukraine)
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Adamenko, Oleg M.; Stelmakh, Orest R.; Zorin, Denis O.; Radlovska, Katya O.
In Starunia village ozokerite deposit was mined in the years 1868-1960. In 1907 remnants of woolly rhinoceros and mammoth were discovered in one of the shafts. A second discovery was made in 1929, in a special shaft digged by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, where remnants of three woolly rhinoceroses were found including one, a unique in the world, almost completely preserved specimen of this extinct species. In the 1970s, mud volcanoes were formed in relationship to seismic activity. In the vicinity of Starunia Paleolithic settlements were found of human population which might have inhabitated this area in the same period as large mammals. Geological, palaeontological and archaeological factors along with beautiful landscape of the Ukrainian Carpathian region make the Starunia village exceptional, world-class geotourist attraction. Hence, the concept of ecological and geological tourist centre has been proposed, located at the abandoned ozokerite mine in Starunia village.
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Porównanie wyników badań geochemicznych wykonanych metodą komór i sond w Staruni
(Data obrony: 2012-11-21) Serafin, Alicja
Wydział Geologii, Geofizyki i Ochrony Środowiska
The paper presents results of surface geochemical analysis carried out by the Department of Fossil Fuels in the abandoned ozokerite mine area near Starunia (Ukraine) in 2004. Author has made statistic analysis of survey’s results which were realized in two variants of free gas method: by using a probe’s and with application of static chamber’s. This analysis depicted gas concentrations measured in both variants and eventually enabled to compare analysis results of both methods.
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The Starunia collections in the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Kubiak, Henryk
In the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków there is a collection of remains connected with the discovery of the famous Pleistocene rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (Blum.), the so-called »second rhinoceros« of Starunia which has been World’s only nearly completely preserved fossil woolly rhinoceros so far. The carcass of that rhino was found in October 1929, i.e. 80 years ago in a shaft of an ozokerite mine near the village Starunia (the Eastern Carpathian Mts.) together with parts of skeletons of two other (»third« and »fourth«) woolly rhinoceroses. Those finds were the results of an Expedition of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beside the rhinoceroses abundant remains of flora and fauna, especially insects, were encountered in this locality.
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The Starunia collections in the Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Chornobay, Yuriy M.; Drygant, Daniel M.
In the Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv there is a collection of a famous Pleistocene mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros, the so-called »first rhinoceros« from Starunia. The mammoth and the first rhinoceros were found 102 years ago, on 5th October and 6th November, 1907, respectively, in a shaft of an ozokerite (earth wax) mine near Starunia village (the Eastern Carpathians). The discovery of large Pleistocene mammals in Starunia was a spectacular, worldfamous scientific event. Beside the mammoth and the rhinoceros, many specimens of Pleistocene flora and fauna from Starunia and other places of the Fore-Carpathian region are exhibited in the Lviv Natural History Museum.